Developers can now download the Visual Studio 2012 software development platform and accompanying .Net Framework 4.5, a Microsoft official revealed on Wednesday. Available to MSDN subscribers, Visual ...

One of the smaller -- but still significant -- announcements made at the Microsoft Build conference today was the news that the third update to Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 has ...

Microsoft will ship a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 for building Windows desktop applications, reversing an earlier decision to limit the Express version of the toolkit to building ...

"Does SSDT for Visual Studio 2012 support BI project templates?" asked James V. Serra in a TechNet forum last September. Some six months later, the answer was yes: "Hi James, the download to add the ...

Previously, these packages were limited to Metro, Azure, Windows Phone, and the Web, but developer pressure has led to Microsoft offering a desktop version After hearing objections from developers, ...

A month ago, it looked like Microsoft's Visual Studio team had decided that the third update to Visual Studio 2012 would be the last before the company moved on to the next version of the suite, known ...

JNBridgePro connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with simple-to-use Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins that remove the complexities of cross-platform ...

Just like clockwork, the Visual Studio team is continuing to push ahead with what look to be quarterly updates to Visual Studio 2012. On April 15, the team made available for download the first ...

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So, Visual Studio 2012 is out. I've installed it, and like it overall. It hasn't broken anything in 2008 or 2010, and I'm running all three at once at the moment. The color scheme (which everybody ...

At its Build developers conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of the first release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. While this may sound like a minor update, it’s actually a big ...

I gotta say that while the new color scheme took a bit to get used to, but now looking at VS 2010 is almost literally painful. I thought the lack of color would bother me, but it doesn't at all. I'm ...